Thornton News

Nearby schools were on lockdown Thursday morning as SWAT officers surrounded a mobile home in Thornton , after a stolen truck led law enforcement to unrelated criminal activity.

Loveland-based developer McWhinney has announced the completion of the first project in its North Park development in the north-metro-Denver area.

The center, on south Broadway and West Ridge Road, sits on 10 acres and includes six buildings with 79,545 square feet of retail space.

The mother who abandoned her two young boys at a Thornton gas station on Saturday is out of the hospital and talking about what happened.

Often, life seems to parallel the storyline in the movie Groundhogs Day. A new day begins, filled with expectations and goals, and by day's end, it's no different than the day before; this is an endless cycle.

A Colorado mom who does not remember leaving her two young sons in a van and disappearing for hours is being examined Monday by doctors for clues into what happened.

Thornton police apprehended a woman Saturday night who had allegedly abandoned her two small children earlier in the day, leaving them sitting in a van at a parking lot at Thornton Parkway and Huron Street.

Ken and Shawna McLaughlin of Cortez are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Ronni Leshon McLaughlin to Kasey Allen Schuebel, son of Kevin and Joyce Schuebel of Thornton, Colo.

At this writing, a slew of law enforcement agencies are engaged in what authorities have cleverly dubbed Operation Sweet Leaf -- a raid of 25 marijuana grows scattered throughout the metro area.

Three marijuana grow houses in Broomfield, which contained numerous marijuana plants and dried marijuana, were raided by police this morning, Broomfield Police Chief Tom Deland said.

TECH LEARNING: Elizabeth Rooks, 7, surfs Web sites in the media center at Prospect Ridge Academy on Tuesday.

The FAA said a commercial pilot who died last year in a field near Thornton was taking "a couple of thousand pictures" of residential properties for business when the plane crashed.

Nineteen members of the Hell's Lovers motorcycle gang were charged with Monday with drug-trafficking crimes and stealing explosives and body armor from law enforcement.

The Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver has been visited by many folks since it's opening in 1892.

Dry and windy are the two main words typically used to describe Denver's weather in January.

Thornton police say a man suspected of threatening a woman outside a Walmart store is in custody.Police identified the suspect as 29-year-old Daniel Matthew Krajnik.A warrant for his arrest was issued Jan.